Letters to the Editor
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Dude, where's my car?
It's a Saturday night, and I'm driving home drunk. I stumble out of my car, leave the keys in the ignition and the car door open, with my wallet and laptop on the front seat. I go into my apartment, go to sleep, and wake up to find that my car has been stolen.
I am a victim of a crime. The person who stole my car was 100% in the wrong and should be prosecuted and thrown in jail.
Does that mean no one should be able to tell me I acted like a total moron, and that my actions made it a thousand times more likely that my car would be stolen? Or that maybe, just maybe, drinking to the point of incoherence is a bad idea?
It's possible my car would have been stolen that night anyway, even if I hadn't been a drunken moron. But I am still responsible for giving the criminal his golden opportunity, when it was in my power to retain my faculties that evening.